It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless
and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched,
courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the
sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.

I think the white card is generally good idea; when there is a pile up of bodies where the ref is clear something has gone on, he can give a penalty, but also flag the incident for further investigation to determine if a harsher sanction was warranted and who precisely the offender is.

It might have affected the two Tuilagi/Ashton incidents, in that Tuilagi have been sent off and Ashton placed on report for the first, and the other way round for the second incident, because part of the sequence of events was clearly seen and the rest wasn't.

Assuming that on either occasion the referee and his TJ actually saw what happened and acted on it rather than simply making it up because the didn't, Andrew.

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To begin at the beginning:

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless
and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched,
courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the
sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.

So presuming this is just to cite a player and not the TMO-send-off-later idea, just how is it any different to what happens now? Ref sees a red card incident: He sends player off. Ref doesn't see red card incident: It's dealt with afterwards.

SK 88So presuming this is just to cite a player and not the TMO-send-off-later idea, just how is it any different to what happens now? Ref sees a red card incident: He sends player off. Ref doesn't see red card incident: It's dealt with afterwards.
So what's the point?

It's intended to allow refs to bottle it isn't it? So more citings and summary convictions in the complete absence of actual evidence beyond the opinion of the unaccountable, faceless citing officers.

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To begin at the beginning:

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless
and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched,
courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the
sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.

That is what I thought as well, so a ref would "go up stairs" for who threw a punch whilst play went on then bin/red him 2 minutes or however long later. But some people seem to think its just a citing in real time. One has merit if still another encouragement for referees to bottle it, one is just a waste of trees to make the white cards!

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